Lost network icon in taskbar

[valtam]

True enough. I've been using Linux for about 10 years but still don't know my way around it enough to sort out a hosed install. In future I'll try something like that on a VM.

Very wise. I always test things in a VB before putting them into my own system

[N4RPS]

Hello!

A power user or few around here have managed to pull off installing other DEs into Linux Lite, but unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing, it's DEFINITELY a BAD IDEA!  LL just wasn't designed with such a thing in mind.

Depending on the DE one chooses, even Ubuntu has issues where you end up with more than one of a certain program. On top of that, things can start to get confusing for the OS, leaving reinstallation as the only solution.

A good example of this is trying to add XFCE to Lubuntu. There are certain aspects of it that 'take over' the entire OS. The login screen is just one thing that comes to mind.

VMs are the best place to 'play', but with as many machines as I have around here, I just go 'all in' on one of them outside of a VM environment, and keep the old images backed up to reinstall later. Sometimes, it's hard to exactly simulate what may happen on an actual PC in a VM...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[raj]

but unless you know EXACTLY what you're doing, it's DEFINITELY a BAD IDEA!  LL just wasn't designed with such a thing in mind.

Agreed. I think i learned that lesson the hard way on this occasion. I still haven't fully recovered from the attempt to install enlightenment, my login screen is still the XFCE square box, but it's livable-with.

[N4RPS]

Hellol

Agreed. I think i learned that lesson the hard way on this occasion. I still haven't fully recovered from the attempt to install enlightenment, my login screen is still the XFCE square box, but it's livable-with.

Sadly, the easiest and fastest way to fix it is a complete reinstall. Hopefully, in the future, you'll use Systemback to back up what you started out with first. I must say that Systemback is the best 'new feature' in LL!

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

[raj]

Sadly, the easiest and fastest way to fix it is a complete reinstall.

Having come to the same conclusion I did just that a few days ago. Lesson learned the hard way this time. Just getting to know the systemback utility, indispensable for trying to keep a functioning Windows system but until the Enlightenment fiasco I would not have believed it was necessary in Linux. Now I know better.